Clockwork Orange: Movie vs book

Clockwork Orange: Movie vs book

Cynthia Castro Velázquez

Clockwork Orange is a book which was written by Anthony Burgess that was later on made into a movie by Stanely Kubrick who created a version similar to the original one but at the same time quite different. 

The movie and the book have two main differences, one one side the age difference. In the book Alex and his droogs are fifteen years old while in the movie they are around twenty years old which make the character´s personalities seem a little bit different because of the they could have at each age and the reasons for their actions. On the other side the use of Nadsat comes out the most in the book since it is almost impossible to understand the meaning of words at the first glance and reading with a glossary on the other hand can be great help. In the movie the use of Nadsat is very limited in part this may be because it would make the movie very hard to understand and less entertaining for the public it is destined to. 

Besides these two main differences there are many others specially in some scenes in which similar situations happen but not in the same way such as the rape scene of a woman in the movie which is a girl in the book. Also the way characters dress in the movie and the book are very different as well as the use of masks which are included in both the movie and the book but are different masks.

In conclusion athough the book and the movie of Clockwork Orange are very different in many ways, they both have the same main idea and the surface surrounding the book is the same crazy one as the one in the movie. In this way Burgess and Stanely both alough the public to react to the story as they want without losing the main idea.